How to Use krill in a Sentence

krill

noun

• Echo sounders can use sonar to gauge the size of krill swarms.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2021
• The nearly 200-ton whales will eat four tons of krill a day.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 9 July 2022
• During the summer days, the whales dove to great depths in search of krill.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
• Anglers countered by trolling on the edge of the krill balls, with the best bite 100 feet deep.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
• Blue whales love to gather at the edges of the Monterey Bay canyon to feast on krill and sing.
  — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• At the same time, krill fishing around the peninsula is on the rise.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• There’s something about the wide, krill-sucking mouth that takes the edge off.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Many sites with acres of krill are drawing in the salmon, whales and marine birds.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• But baleen whales hunt schools of fish or swarms of krill, Pyenson said.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Black says the adult whale is teaching its child, who is about 4 months old, how to catch fish and krill.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
• Less winter sea ice in the Antarctic means more open ocean where the whales like to feed on krill.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 5 May 2018
• Antarctic krill form the biggest biomass swarms on Earth.
  — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
• The chasm in the ice might have been an inviting entry to the krill-rich waters below.
  — David W. Brown, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• The plankton then draws in the krill, anchovies, squid and other baitfish, which in turn draw the whales.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• Today, all of the krill living in the Southern Ocean add up to only about half of that amount.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• The krill avoid the bubbles, becoming trapped inside the net.
  — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• Others are waddling to the water to find fish and krill to feed their chicks and themselves.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• Minke and fin whales have short, coarse baleen, which is ideal for eating large fish and krill.
  — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• Humpback whales eat small fish and krill, not seals, and their throats are only the size of a grapefruit, Gless said.
  — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• The lights sweep toward the fenders like winglets, while the whale-like grille below could swallow an ocean of krill.
  — Henry Payne, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Krill eat the plankton, whales eat the krill, the whales poop, the phytoplankton bloom and the cycle continues.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
• But how do these gigantic creatures find patches of tiny krill in the first place?
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• The rocky particles in their gut may help to grind up things like krill, similar to the way grit in a bird’s gizzard works.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
• The blue whale calibrates its migrations to find the krill that sustains it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Whale mothers breastfeed their young with milk dyed pink by their diet of krill.
  — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• Omega-3s can come from krill or fish like salmon, herring, anchovies, whiting, and more.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• Males spend two months incubating their egg on their feet while females feed on krill and squid in the sea.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• Most of the time, the density of krill was random, and the whales’ feeding activity was slow and steady.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2017
• Much of it is locked inside the bodies of krill and other animals.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2021
• Finally, the humpback lunges upwards, gulping the krill in one big bite.
  — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024